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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Restaurant Reviews: Cardamom Hill Kerala Fried Chicken

Fried
chicken is southern food at its best. It has deep and
meaningful roots in our nation's history, and it has inspired food
lovers emigrating to Georgia to create their own versions of it.

Chef
Asha Gomez of Cardamon Hill restaurant,
recently expanded its lunch menu to include new renditions of her
amazing and delirious Kerala
fried chicken.
This Indian inspired fried chicken is marinated overnight, seasoned
with a plethora
of provocative
Indian spices and fried in hot coconut oil. The result is a perfectly
moist, and tender boneless chicken thighs that have been fried until
they reach a delicate crunch.

One
bite, is all that it takes for you to realize this is no ordinary
chicken. Once the flavors hit the roof of your palate your brain goes
crazy trying to figure out the flavors that make your mouth
tingle with so much happiness.

Cardamon
Hill fried chicken is provocative but unpretentious, and is one of
those things you need to try if you ever visit this restaurant. You
can order it with low country waffles and spiced maple syrup or in
a salad that comes with romaine lettuce, roasted pineapple, diced
apple, spiced pecans, carrots, and grapes tossed in a buttermilk
dressing topped with puffed rice and fried lentils.

Cardamon
Hill's Kerala fried chicken has become a signature dish at the restaurant and for the
past two years have won the people choice awards at Atlanta's Mother Clucker Fried Chicken Festival.

Cardamom
Hill is located in Berkeley Heights an Atlanta neighborhood between
upscale Buckhead and the burgeoning Westside. It was named one of the best 50 new restaurants to open in America
in 2012 by Bon Appetit Magazine and recently received a
Silver Spoon Award for being one of the top 10 dinning destinations
in Georgia.

“Fried
chicken is as well‐loved in the Indian South as it is in the
American South, and I grew up eating this particular recipe,” says
Gomez of her childhood in Kerala. “I am thrilled that it has been
so well‐received by diners here in Atlanta, and
I am proud to lead the first commercial kitchen in Atlanta to offer
fried chicken to people who do not or cannot consume gluten.”

Cardamon
Hill is perfect for kids that are culinary explorers. My 12 y/o daughter
ordered the duck and
plantain croquettes and the mango bread pudding for dessert and really like it.

Cardamom Hill is open for lunch Monday through Friday and through Saturday for dinner, closed Sunday.